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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"work and occupations"”.
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Ecosystem disclaimers for successful influence of higher power occupational groups inside organizations
… occupation members, which the literature on work and occupations has shown to be difficult. Lower power public defenders in both offices faced the same barriers to influence of higher power prosecutors and had access to the same contextual facilitators of influence. Yet, public defenders from …
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Red and white is always right : perspectives from a group of ambulance workers
… founders through to the "Chicago School" and up to the contemporary concerns of ethnomethodology, the study of work and occupations has been a central concern of sociological research. Based on data collected by participant observation and unstructured interviewing, this study presents an …
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Measuring the gender-wage differential and discrimination in the Eritrean labour market
The objective of the study is to measure and investigate the sources of gender-wage differentials in the Eritrean labour market. The study uses primary data drawn from the Income and Expenditure Household Survey collected by National Statistics Eritrea in 1997. Three separate standard wage …
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Beyond occupational differences : the importance of cross-cutting demographics and dyadic toolkits for collaboration in a US hospital
Scholars of work and occupations have long shown that asking members from different occupations to collaborate with one another is difficult because of differences in status, meanings, and expertise across occupational groups, but they have failed to consider how the demography of the setting …
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Applying an Organizational Approach to the Sociology of Leisure: A Study of Clog Dancers
The purpose of this study was to enhance understanding of leisure experiences by applying an organizational approach to the sociology of leisure. This organizational approach, used mainly to study work and occupations, consists of a conceptual framework derived from social systems theory and …
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The Common, the Contradictory and the Idiosyncratic: Signposts from a Qualitative Exploration into the Structural Factors Influencing Scientific Work in Tsukuba, Japan [1997-2002]
… During these trying times, scientific work has been an important element in Japan's economic development. However, the 1990s revealed weaknesses in this “economic miracle.” During this period, several socio-structural factors have contributed to this social landscape. Future successes …